Greality: TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel takes aim at North Colorado

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If you’ve been watching the news lately, you’ve probably noticed that the Weld County commissioners proposal to split with Colorado along with several other northeastern counties and form the nation’s 51st state has garnered plenty of national media attention.

Outlets as varied as The New York Daily News, CBS, The Daily Caller and Huffington Post have all done stories or commentary pieces recently on the movement that began right here in Weld. Late-night funny man Jimmy Kimmel also recently used the proposal as fodder for jokes on his ABC program “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” During the program that aired July 11, the comedian made several jokes at the beginning of the show involving North Colorado, including one about Colorado’s recent decision to let adults possess marijuana.

“This is what happens when you legalize marijuana,” he said. “Everyone gets all paranoid and tries to secede.”

We’re not sure what he meant by that.

He also took aim at the proposed state’s name.

“If you’re going to go to the trouble of creating a new state, give it a cool name like the Danger Zone, or Colorado II: The Reckoning,” he joked.